Important Americana

Important Americana

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Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey

A Very Rare and Important Needlework Sampler, Ann Stockton (1793-1828), Upper Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, Dated 1804

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

silk and chenille threads and watercolor on paper on linen

16 ¼ in. by 16 ¾ in.


worked in cross, satin, stem, chain, and solid stem-stitches, the upper register signed and dated Ann Stockton 1804 above a white house flanked by arborvitae trees and white gated fences before a lawn with grazing chickens, geese, and a dog surrounded by planted flowers, flanked by cedar trees and a fence to the left and a willow tree and basket of strawberries to the right; the foreground depicting a young girl donned in a white dress riding a cream-colored horse flanked by hilly landscapes with a basket of flowers, cow, pheasant, and dog perched on the hill to the left and a homestead, willow trees, and sheep on the right, the whole enveloped by a flat-stitch border and housed in a period red-painted frame.


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Miss Nancy Brown, Co-Chairwoman Friends Committee, American Folk Art Museum;

Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts, at White Plains Antiques Show, New York, 1981.

Leslie and Peter Warwick, "Society of Friends: A Pictorial Needlework School in Burlington County, New Jersey," Antiques and Fine Art, Spring 2012, pp. 174-179;

Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850, Volume 2, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), p. 470, fig. 525;

Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe, American Samplers, (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1987) p. 227;

Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 165-68, fig. 304.